5 Steps To Writing Personalized Cold Emails
The best part is these have far broader
reaching applications and can be utilized on any sort of online, written
communication, such as LinkedIn inmails.
Here are 5 easy steps:
1) Cold Emails start with your buyer persona.
It’s key to understand your buyer
persona before you start searching for a person to reach out
to or message to send.
Once you fully understand the details
associated with your ideal buyer, you can start pulling together leads.
2) Generate your list of leads.
The lead builder function lets you filter
by industry, company size, region and keywords and then searches the entire
LinkedIn database to find profiles that match that criteria.
If the initial list you get is
overwhelming, you can continue to add criteria to shorten it. From here, start
examining individual lead profiles.
3) Three takeaways in less than 3 minutes.
As soon as you pull up a specific person’s
information, try to identify three relatable things in less than three minutes
(a rule of 3x3, if you will). By relatable, I mean anything that you have in
common or that creates a human
connection with that other person.
4) Generate Personalized Email.
This is both the most important and
probably the most fun part of cold emailing.
Sure, you might get a couple of people who
bite if you send out 1,000 mass emails with the same message, but if you spend
a little bit of extra time and send out 50 really personalized emails.
Here are the key elements of your
personalized email:
- Subject line: Don’t make
this too sales-y. Try to keep it casual, yet catchy and fit one of your
three relatable facts in there.
- Greeting and intro: Casual
again, and start with the relatable piece of information.
- Transition: Transition
from the relatable aspect to your main point. Explain the reason for your
email.
- Snapshot: Provide a
brief overview of what your company does and how it could help this
person.
- Network: Share a few
customers they might have heard of.
- Call to action: Suggest a
specific day and time to have a
phone conversation.
5) Follow up and take action.
If you don’t get a response the first time,
follow up. Add another personalized comment -- maybe
even a joke, but only if you can find a smooth way to fit it in. Tools like
PersistIQ can help you set up campaigns for this.
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